Shaw has given us an important analysis of colonial Kenya in which Africa has shaped its white folks as well as the other way round. Europeans invented their own pornographic fantasies of African women and men in genral and of Kikuyu and Masai in particualar, of savage servants and noble savages, to justify their rule, and to slug out among themselves proper colonial class, sexual and gender relations. And in resisting the whole European project as well as its parts, Kikuyu and Masai contested and reinvented themselves, their systems of stratification, gender and interethnicity. It's a fine read and a wonderful reread of Leakey, Kenyatta and colonial ethnography.